Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming
Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming

Anyone who has beenin a bookshop in the last few years will have noticed that Japanese fiction is experiencing an extraordinary boom. In 2022, figures from Nielsen BookScan showed that Japanese fiction represented 25% of all translated fiction sales in the UK. The dominance is even more striking...